A simple and sensitive solid-phase spectrophotometry procedure was improved for the microdetermination of Cr(VI). A 0.06 cm3 portion of a cation exchanger, Muromac AG 50W-X2, was used to concentrate the target Cr(VI) in a 20 cm3 water sample, and resin beads were introduced in a flow cell of 1.5 mm diameter and having a 10 mm light path length for measurements using a UV-visible spectrophotomet...

The solubility of tris(pentane-2,4-dionato)chromium(III) (Cr(acac)(3)) in supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO(2)) containing organic modifiers (1,1,1,3,3,3-hexafluoro-2-propanol (HFP) and 3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenol (BTMP)) of hydrogen-bond donors was investigated by UV/VIS spectrophotometry. A great solubility enhancement of Cr(acac)(3) in SC-CO(2) was accomplished by adding HFP and BTMP. T...

Protective capabilities were studied of carboxymethylated (1-->3)-beta-D-glucan from Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell wall against lipid peroxidation in phosphatidylcholine liposomes induced by OH radicals produced with Fenton's reagent (H2O2/Fe2+) and also by microwave radiation using absorption UV-VIS spectrophotometry. A significant decrease in the conjugated diene production, quantified as Kle...

Multiwavelength UV-visible transmission spectrophotometry is a useful tool for the examination of micron-size particle suspensions in the context of particle size and chemical composition. This paper reports the reliability of this method to characterize the spectra of purified red blood cells both in their physiological state and with modified hemoglobin content. Previous studies have suggeste...

The formation of uranyl-peroxide complexes was studied at alkaline media by using UV-Visible spectrophotometry and the STAR code. Two different complexes were found at a H(2)O(2)/U(VI) ratio lower than 2. A graphical method was used in order to obtain the formation constants of such complexes and the STAR program was used to refine the formation constants values because of its capacity to treat...

BACKGROUND Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) are increasingly being used in medical applications. Therefore, cost effective and green methods for generating AgNPs are required. OBJECTIVES This study aimed towards the biosynthesis, characterisation, and determination of antimicrobial activity of AgNPs produced using Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 27853. METHODS Culture conditions (AgNO3 concentratio...

A semiorganic crystal of zinc thiosemicarbazide sulfate (ZTSCS) has been grown aqueous solution by slow evaporation technique at room temperature. The material was subjected to various characterization techniques such as UV-Visible, non linear optical test, photoluminescence study, elemental analysis and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) techniques. Cut off wavelength and band gap of the grown ...

This study was performed to determine whether extracellular silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) production is a genus-wide phenotype associated with all the members of genus Morganella, or only Morganella morganii RP-42 isolate is able to synthesize extracellular Ag nanoparticles. To undertake this study, all the available Morganella isolates were exposed to Ag+ ions, and the obtained nanoproducts wer...

In this study, aligned zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorods (NRs) with various lengths (1.5-5 µm) were deposited on ZnO:Al (AZO)-coated glass substrates by using a solution phase deposition method; these NRs were prepared for application as working electrodes to increase the photovoltaic conversion efficiency of solar cells. The results were observed in detail by using X-ray diffraction, field-emission sc...

The thermodynamic stability of the metallacrown complexes formed by picolinehydroxamic acid (Picha) with Cu(ii), Ni(ii) and Zn(ii) in aqueous solution has been determined by potentiometry, and the speciation models were validated by ESI-MS and UV-visible spectrophotometry. Cu(ii) and Zn(ii) form 12-MC-4 species as the unique metallacrowns present in the solution. While for Cu(ii) the 12-MC-4 is...